Kent Conrad: “History is going to judge us, whether or not we were up to this challenge and whether or not we were true patriots.”

All the talk in the world doesn't matter if you don't actually get something done in the real world.

Social Security's financial challenge affects nearly our entire society, and the solutions will require a broad-based approach.

I do, and I made that argument to the commission, and others on the commission made some of the points that you are making now.

The one thing I know for sure is that what is happening now is not working.